This is strange. The fact is that http://www.mai.gov.ro is running Fedora
with Apache. Absolutely strange.
On the other hand, universitites here accept papers and other written
documents in .odf format. They have legal documents online saved as .odt as well
as .doc.

I really must look up what the situation is in public administration.
Anyway, the websites of all the ministries and most of the banks are on
Linux.
No, I think it is typical Romanian turmoil and misinformation, not
deliberate disinformation what they are doing. On the other hand they seem to be
disinformed if they act like that. Linux everywhere on the server, Windows
everywhere on the Desktop.